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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Exodus 4 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Exodus 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/3.htm" title="Exodus 3">◄</a> Exodus 4 <a href="../exodus/5.htm" title="Exodus 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/exodus/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Moses’ Staff<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Moses will answer and say, And behold, they will not believe in me, and they will not bear to my voice: for they will say, Jehovah was not seen to thee. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to him, What this in thy hand? and he will say, A rod. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he will say, Cast it upon the earth. And he will cast it upon the earth and it will be into a serpent, and Moses will flee from before it. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand, and seize by its tail. And he will stretch forth his hand, and will hold fast upon it, and it will be for a rod in his hand. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That they shall believe that Jehovah was seen to thee, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaak, and the God of Jacob.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Moses’ Hand<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to him yet again, Bring now thy hand into thy bosom. And he will bring his hand into his bosom, and he will bring it forth, and behold his hand leprous as snow. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he will say, Turn back thy hand into thy bosom. And he will turn back his hand into his bosom, and he will bring it forth from his bosom, and behold, it turned back as his flesh. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And it shall be if they will not believe in thee, and will not hear to the voice of the first sign, and they believed the voice of the latter sign. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And it shall be, if they will not believe in the two signs, and will not hear to thy voice, and take thou from the water of the river and pour out upon the dry; and the water which thou shalt take from the river shall be and shall be for blood upon the dry.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">The Appointment of Aaron<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Moses will say to Jehovah, With leave my Lord, not a man of words, also from yesterday, also from the third day, also from the time of thy speaking to thy servant; for I being heavy of mouth, and heavy of tongue. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to him, Who set a mouth to man? or who set the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or blind? is it not I Jehovah? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And now go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he will say, With leave, my Lord, send by the hand thou shalt send.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Jehovah will be angry with anger against Moses, and he will say, Is not Aaron thy brother, the Levite? I know that speaking, he will speak. And also behold him coming forth to thy meeting: and seeing thee and rejoicing in his heart. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And speak to him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and teach you what ye shall do. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he the word for thee to the people: and being, he shall be to thee for a mouth, and thou shalt be to him for God. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And this rod shalt thou take in thy hand, with which thou shalt do signs.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Moses Leaves for Egypt<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Moses will go and turn back to Jethro his father-in-law, and will say to him, I will go now and turn back to my brethren which are in Egypt, and I will see whether they are yet living. And Jethro will say to Moses, Go in peace. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Moses in Midian, Go, turn back to Egypt, for all the men died having sought thy soul. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Moses will take his wife and his sons, and will cause them to ride upon an ass, and he will turn back to the land of Egypt And Moses will take the rod of God in his hand.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Moses, In thy going to turn back to Egypt, see all the wonders which I put in thy hand: do them before Pharaoh; and I will bind fast his heart and he shall not send forth the people. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And say thou to Pharaoh, So said Jehovah, my first-born son is Israel. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And saying to thee, Send forth my son, and he shall save me: and shalt thou refuse to send him, behold me killing thy son, thy first-born.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And it shall be in the way in the inn, and Jehovah will meet with him and will seek to kill him. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Zipporah will take a stone, and will cut off the uncircumcision her son, and will come to his feet, and will say, For a spouse of bloods, thou to me. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And he will desist from him: then she said, A husband of bloods, for the circumcision.<p> <A name="28"></a><p class="hdg">The People Believe Moses and Aaron<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Jehovah will say to Aaron, Go to the meeting of Moses, to the desert And he will go, and will meet with him in the mount of God, and will kiss him. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And Moses will announce to Aaron all the words of Jehovah who sent him, and all the signs which he commanded him. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Moses will go, and Aaron, and they will gather together all the old men of the sons of Israel. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And Aaron will speak all the words which Jehovah spoke to Moses, and he will do the signs in the eyes of the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/exodus/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the people will believe: and they will hear that Jehovah reviewed the sons of Israel, and that he saw their affliction, and they will bow down and worship.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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